News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
Tulips, Checkpoints, and No Traps, Oh My! Join us on June 7th for the June First Friday Niter, sanctioned by the SCCA, Cal Club Region, and the Santa Monica Sports Car Club! Once again, Rallymaster Jeanne English is bringing you a tulip diagram rally with NO traps and lots of[Read More…]
The Detroit Region SCCA is back with its Twilight Tour Divisional RoadRally on Saturday, May 4th. The rally covers ±180 miles of mostly unpaved roads in Washtenaw, Jackson, Lenawee, and Monroe counties. Rallymaster Bruce Fisher will take you on this straightforward time-speed-distance (TSD) Tour Rally, which means no traps. All[Read More…]
The Miles for Memories Road Rally, supporting the Alzheimer’s Association, is organized by the River Cities Region, Sports Car Club of America. Start location: High Performance Computer Services, 12:30 PM 1:15 PM – Rally School and Competitor – Richta GPS Checkpoints Orientation 2:00 PM – First Car Out There is[Read More…]
Many of you are probably wondering about dates for the Great American Mountain Rally Revival aka GAMRR 2024. We have decided to take a break for this year. We will not be running the GAMRR in 2024, which comes with mixed emotions. However, after five fantastic years and thousands of[Read More…]
Join the SCCA San Diego Region on Saturday, April 6th (yes, this is our rescheduled February 3rd rally) for a navigational TSD (time/speed/distance) Road Rally on public roads at assigned (legal) speeds. A score will be awarded based on your correct arrival time at checkpoints. Our 75-mile route for Hernandez Hideaway[Read More…]
Some people think that stories have a beginning, middle, and end. However, the Alcan 5000 trip has a beginning; it never really ended. It was an experience that kept giving, growing, and empowering me. So, I guess let’s start. The journey didn’t begin on day one; it started a few[Read More…]
A Practical Experiment Combining RoadRally and Solo A fast-paced dance between cones, a precision reversing maneuver on the clock, hairpin turns on gravel, blind curves with unexpected ice, and half of this at night — all in the same event! That’s what competitors enjoyed at the 2024 Flamethrower Regional Rally[Read More…]
From the Richta GPS Home Office in Kansas — March 10, 2024 Earlier this morning, I released version 1.39 of the Android Rallymaster app. This version contains a fix for a bug first reported two years ago. Identifying the root cause of the bug illustrates the care that must be[Read More…]
Raindrop 2024—Rally in the Valleys will start at the “big rock” in Duval. It will be a leisurely paced Time-Speed-Distance (TSD) rally along some of the rivers and their valleys that make up the northeast corner of the Seattle area. Some great driving roads have views, twisty bits, and urban[Read More…]
We’ll see where it takes them—after all, it is a road rally! Yet, establishing interest for the Rocky Mountain Division’s Colorado Region and Continental Divide Region in delving into an SCCA RoadRally program is checked off the “Let’s Start a RoadRally Program” list. With Regional Executive Robert Melanson’s interest at last year’s[Read More…]